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Featured Series – What Inspires You?
Migrant workers find refuge in shophouse
The second floor of a shophouse at Rowell Road is a hive of activity seven days a week. From Monday to Saturday, hundreds of migrant workers gather there to collect tokens to exchange for meals. On alternate Wednesdays, the space is turned into a makeshift clinic. And...
Polytechnic students create gadget to help dyslexic children
For dyslexic children, the multi-sensory approach to learning — from sight to sound — is a struggle, which is what a team from Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) hopes to address with an enhanced teaching tool. Called the ProCubeX, the cuboid-shaped gadget works with an...
Special needs teacher inspires students
When special needs teacher Andy Ang took over his school's horticulture class in 2008, he had to contend with a barren school garden and disinterested students. But the 47-year-old pushed on, and together with his students, went on to cultivate a lush, thriving...
Using brains and heart to educate children in need
Ms Janine Teo led a sheltered life when she was growing up. She lived in a terraced house in Siglap, went to top schools and her "tiger" mum made sure that she aced all of her exams. By nine years old, she was already a Mensa Singapore member. Her first job as a...
Teenage girl helped a blind and deaf passenger
Clara Daly, 15, and her mother were traveling home to Calabasas, California, and had planned to fly non-stop from Boston to Los Angeles. Their flight was canceled, so Alaska Airlines booked them on another flight with a layover in Portland, Oregon. That’s how Clara...
Giving migrant workers a taste of home away from home
It was a Sunday of many firsts for Kadir Mohammad Abdul, Hosen Sahadat, Islam Shohidul and Abul Hosen. It was their first time inside a Housing Development Board home - though they’d certainly helped build enough of these flats over the years. Their first evening as...
How Singapore can curb plastic pollution
The development of plastics has led to a revolution in packaging and consumer goods, and enhanced convenience for billions of people. Yet, an estimated 8 million metric tonnes of plastic leaks out into our oceans annually, causing major environmental, economic and...
Asian millennials see value in social impact investing
Ms Cai Shiyin was the Chief Technology Officer at GE Infrastructure's Asia Pacific office for eight years before she co-founded Dialogue in the Dark, a social enterprise which carries out corporate leadership training. On 5 June 2018, Ms Cai, 42, whose personal...
SMU student learns how way of life affects thinking
When Ms Janice Chiang was in a village near Mombasa, Kenya, for her summer internship, she was taken aback by how much her thinking differed from the locals'. A Kenyan university student in her team was tagged as a spy by the other village boys and, to stay safe, had...